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Michelle Yeoh’s 15 Hong Kong films: with Jackie Chan in Police Story 3 – Supercop, opposite Jet Li in The Tai Chi Master, Malaysian actress reigned as action queen
- The Malaysian actress, who won the best actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once, starred in a string of action and martial arts films over 12 years
- Appearing opposite the likes of Jackie Chan and Jet Li and for directors including Wong Jing, Johnnie To and Yuen Woo-ping, she did all her own stunts
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Michelle Yeoh is now an international superstar and an Oscar winner for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, but the Malaysian actress made her name as Hong Kong’s hard-hitting action queen in the 1980s and ’90s.
We recall the movies that made Yeoh such an unforgettable star in Hong Kong, her adoptive home.
The Owl Versus Bombo (1984)
Yeoh had a non-action role in this action comedy directed by Sammo Hung Kam-bo and starring George Lam Chi-cheung.
Yeoh had come to Hong Kong from Malaysia to shoot a TV advertisement for a jewellery company owned by businessman and film studio owner Dickson Poon.
Poon, who Yeoh married in 1988, had formed D&B Films with Hung, and the studio gave Yeoh her first movie role.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars (1985)
Yeoh, a confessed thrill-seeker, had trained as a dancer in the UK, and felt she was agile enough for action, stunts and martial arts.
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